Electronic Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Boston, Massachusetts, February 15-18, 2007

Paper C020

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Series Solutions Of Second Order Differential Equations With The TI-89

Timothy L. Miller


Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics
Missouri Western State University
4525 Downs Drive
St. Joseph, MO 64507-2294
USA


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ABSTRACT

The TI-89 cannot solve second order linear differential equations with variable coefficients. I am discussing a calculator program I have written to find partial sums of series solutions about any ordinary or regular singular point of such equations.

Keyword(s): differential equations, sequences and series, TI-89